Machine Intelligence Research Institute

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), formerly the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 to research safety issues related to the development of Strong AI. Nate Soares is the current Executive Director, having taken over from Luke Muehlhauser in May 2015.

Eliezer Yudkowsky was one of the early founders and continues to work there as a Research Fellow. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute created and currently operates Less Wrong.